JUDGMENT

Hon’ble V.K. Shukla, J.—Petitioners, who are 37 in number, have approached this Court with a request to issue writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus to relieve the petitioners pursuant to the transfer order dated 11th July, 2013 and thereafter direct the respondents to permit the petitioners to join at their respective place of posting.

2. Brief background of the case is that each one of the petitioner have been initially appointed as Assistant Teacher and thereafter had been accorded promotion in consonance with the provisions as contained under U.P. Basic Education (Teachers) Service Rules, 1981. Petitioners submit that each one of them has been performing and discharging duties in their respective posting and thereafter petitioners claim that they have applied for inter district transfer from district Kaushambi to district Allahabad in the prescribed format. Petitioners submit that their request in question has been accepted as in the list, which has been so finalized, name of petitioners have been duly mentioned therein. Petitioners have stated that they were expecting that they would relieved but they have not at all been relieved on the premises that batch